Alaska's Wild Plants, Revised Edition: A Guide to Alaska's Edible and Healthful Harvest

by Janice J. Schofield

With bright color photographs and completely up-to-date information, this authoritative guidebook introduces adventurers and harvesters to more than 80 of Alaska's most common wild edible plants.

Alaska’s Wild Plants is the perfect guide to tuck in your backpack as you explore Alaska’s lands. Now reorganized to be more user friendly with a new introduction to foraging, this informative book will help you discover the bounty of the land and its plants around you.

Understand basic principles to foraging and easy plant preparations. Learn about each plant's nutritional content, and medicinal and culinary uses. Discover the habitats where the plant can be found and how to harvest it correctly. Identify the plant’s physical characteristics with an accompanying color photograph. Find more expert sources to continue your plant education. For explorers, foragers, harvesters, or just the casually interested, this book will help readers recognize Alaska’s most common edible plants, including chickweed, high bush cranberry, crowberry, sweet gale, and more.

Genres: Health

200 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 31, 2020

Reviews

[Anna Brandes · Rating 5 out of 5]

A must read for Alaskans, especially for new ones like myself! This book helped me realize the bounty of food that is available if you know where and how to look for it. This is especially useful in a state where a majority of our produce gets shipped or flown in, making locally harvested and foraged foods that much better for our health and the health of the planet. Hoping to use this book as a jumping off point for a new foraging hobby and as a reference point in the future. The photographs are beautiful and the write ups on each plant interesting and informative. I love that Schofield includes many different names for the plants including native names and uses. I also greatly enjoyed the recipes she includes and the research she references when talking about plants medicinal uses. Overall a very well put together book and resource.

[SJ · Rating 4 out of 5]

Not the widest survey of entries, but v detailed with lots of good info on what does appear

[Claire Labuda · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good intro book, nice pictures. If you want something more than an intro need a more thorough book than this